What Does the LA Fire Department Have to Hide?
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The Los Angeles City Fire Department is limiting public information on emergency calls: public updates to the press and the agency’s Twitter feed won’t be as detailed as they used to be. Is it related to the controversy over response times, which could have life-or-death consequences? If the public’s at risk, will warnings be specific enough to help people protect themselves? What if it’s at a school? Also, California could be the state that decides if Mitt Romney can sew up the presidential nomination before the GOP convention in Tampa. On our rebroadcast of To the Point, the price of gasoline and the race for the White House.
Banner image: Paramedics evacuate the injured, near the wreckage of two trains that collided in Glendale, California. Photo by Hector Mata/AFP/Getty Images
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What Does the LA Fire Department Have to Hide? ()
The Los Angeles City Fire Chief Brian Cummings admits he issued misleading statistics on whether his department has been responding to emergency calls in time to save lives. Now he's announced that he's limiting public updates on emergency calls, saying he's acting on advice from City Attorney Carmen Trutanich.
Guests:
- Andrew Blankstein: Los Angeles Times, @anblanx
- Austin Beutner: City of Los Angeles (formerly), @austinbeutner
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Reporter's Notebook
Will CA Finally Get to Play Ball in a Presidential Primary? ()
California's statewide primary elections are held in June. The last time the largest state in the union was important in a presidential race was 1972, when George McGovern beat Hubert Humphrey to win the Democratic nomination. This could be the year when California's voice is heard again, this time on the Republican side.
Guests:
- Sherry Bebitch Jeffe: USC
- Ron Nehring: Republican strategist, @RonNehring
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The Price of Gasoline and the Race for the White House ()
Americans are suffering from increased pain at the gas pump, and Republicans are blaming President Obama. What are the real causes of increased gasoline prices? Can the President persuade voters it's not his fault and that he's doing all he can?
Guests:
- Cliff Young: Missouri Pool Service
- Jack Gerard: American Petroleum Institute
- Chris Nelder: SmartPlanet.com, @nelderini
- Neil King: Wall Street Journal, @NKingofDC
Links:
- White House on the facts on gas prices
- President Obama on ending subsidies for big oil companies
- Romney on Obama's energy policy
- Gingrich on Obama's energy policy
- Santorum on 'unleashing America's domestic energy'
- Associated Press on increased drilling not having reduced oil prices
- Strategic Petroleum Reserve
- Nelder on Obama's energy leadership
- King on problems complicating Obama's energy overhaul
- Obama on solar energy
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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.
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